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“It wasn’t something I could ignore, there wasn’t a tipping point or a moment where I realised.

“I was sick, really sick to the point where I didn’t know it was anxiety. I had an MRI on my brain, I went for a checkup on my heart - I really, truly believed I was sick and didn’t know it was anxiety for a little while.

“I was still in Spin and still working, burning the candle at both ends.”

Last summer, Daniella packed in her radio gig to travel the world and has since visited much of Europe, the US and South America.

“For me, I always seem to be able to make the best - I’m able to organise and compartmentalise my life. I’m always ploughing forward and getting things done - this is something I can understand looking back on my time in radio,” she said.

“It’s not that I experienced it at the time but in hindsight that job was so so challenging and taxing for me.

“To get up every morning at 4.30am to be so vulnerable - you have nothing to fall back on when you’re in that studio. Thank god for my co-host Cormac [Moore], we got on so well and had each other’s back.

“I don’t know if it was because of the pressure of that job or the disruption to my sleep cycle or the fact that I generally wasn’t doing just that - after the show my day would also be full of freelance jobs… I just found that it was so anti-social in its hours.